“I was not only twenty-three, but a conspicuously retarded twenty-three.”
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955)
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Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 2, “An Abode of Ravens: When the Baobhas Sang” (p. 367)

“Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.”

Interview in the PBS documentary Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires (1996)
1990s
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 9

“You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more."
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“three repairman per twenty machines are much more economical than one repairman per six machines.”
Source: An Introduction To Probability Theory And Its Applications (Third Edition), Chapter XVII, The Simplest Time Dependent Stochastic Processes, p. 466.

As quoted in Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade (2002) by Douglas Allen, p. 216.

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (2010), p. 111